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(Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide.) Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to use Windows PowerShell to obtain information about the status of services that are configured on my computer. Do you have any hints you could share? -- LB Hello LB, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a number of computer names. I would like to read that text file, query each computer in the list, and find out the status of a particular hotfix. If I could write the information to a text file, it would be even better. Here is the deal; there was a recent security update that was release...

 Hey Scripting Guy! I need to generate a list of hotfixes that are installed on my servers. I have 100 servers on the network for which I am responsible. Each of the server names is listed in a text file called servers.txt. I need a way to read the text file and then query each of the servers. Can you help me?-- GMHello GM, Microsoft Scripting...

 Hey, Scripting Guy! I am looking for a script that will list program identifiers on my computer. Have one of those?-- CGHello CG, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is interesting you ask for a script that will list program identifiers on your computer. Program identifiers (PIDs) are the secret word combinations that are used when cre...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to run a script when my computer is idle. But only when it is idle. I have looked in WMI and everywhere else and cannot find anything that will detect when the computer is idle. Can you tell me how to do it?- NM Hi NM, You know, our computers are busy plotting against us every minute of the day. Of this we a...